EDITOR’S CHOICE
Presence by Arthur Miller, $23.95
Best known as a playwright, Miller also wrote fiction. This book gathers six of the author’s last short stories. They appeared in magazines toward the end of his life and deal with love and redemption.
Tom Walker
FICTION
Portrait of an Unknown Woman by Vanora Bennett, $24.95|Set against the backdrop of Sir Thomas More’s family, this debut novel examines love, religion and sin in 16th century England.
You Don’t Scare Me by John Farris, $24.95 |The best-selling thriller writer of “Phantom Nights” returns with a tale of a woman who is stalked by predator from beyond the grave.
NONFICTION
Public Cowboy No. 1: The Life and Times of Gene Autry by Holly George-Warren, $28|Here is the first comprehsive biography of the man who was born Orvon Grover Autrey to an impoverished family but grew up to be an extremely successful entertainer and businessman.
The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down by Colin Woodard, $27|Using archival material from England, Spain and the Americas, Woodard tells the real story, brief as it was, of the Caribbean pirates as they fought nature and empire.
The Happiness Myth: Why What We Think Is Right Is Wrong by Jennifer Michael Hecht, $24.95|The author tries to persuade us to rethink the traditional means toward happiness and that those traditions are often distorted by myths and falsehoods.
PAPERBACKS
Blood Makes the Grass Grow Green: A Year in the Desert With Team America by Johnny Rico, $13.95 |Rico takes a humorous look, much like Joseph Heller with “Catch 22” – at life in the modern military. It’s through satire that he gets his points about war across to the reader.
It Had to be You by Sarah Webb, $13.95|Three women lead very different lives in the tiny Irish hamlet of Burnaby, but they are all seeking eternal happiness.
Iran Awakening: One Woman’s Journey to Reclaim Her Life and Country by Shirin Ebadi, $14.95 |This memoir from the Nobel laureate tells one woman’s public career and her desire to live a traditional life while voicing her rebellious opinions.
COMING UP
MAY
A Russian Diary: A Journalist’s Final Account of Life, Corruption, and Death in Putin’s Russia by Anna Politkovskaya, $25.95|The journalist completed this account of life from in Russia from 2003 to the summer of 2005. She was gunned down in Moscow in the fall of 2006.
JULY
Killer Weekend by Ridley Pearson, $24.95|Thriller writer Pearson is back with a story of an evil hit man who is targeting a politician as she prepares to announce her run for the presidency.
Thursday Next: First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde, $24.95|Another in the best-selling series featuring the title character, a no-nonsense literary detective.
